This story began when a few days ago I looked for the entry “Photography” in the well-known DUDEN thematic dictionary (Bildwörterbush of Duden - Leipzig 1940…
Lens Adapting, Mods & DIY• Philosophy & Reflections
Lens Adapting, Mods & DIY• Tutorials & Guides
The Impact of Air Bubbles in the Optics of Old Lenses – By Jordi Fradera
July 2, 2020Tell me something that is heavy, hard, old and almost unbreakable. Is it a stone? No, it's a prewar Contax. I say "almost unbreakable", as these…
Lens Adapting, Mods & DIY
A Little Bricolage, or: How I Recovered Two Old Lenses – By Jordi Fradera
May 7, 2020I’ll start with the Canon Super-Canomatic R 135mm f/2.5, but before I get going, its relevant to say that both Canon, Pentax K and Sony A…
That time I shot with a...
That Time I Shot an 18-55mm APS-C Digital Lens on a 35mm Pentax Film Camera
March 2, 2020Those of you who follow my ramblings will be aware that I’ve recently been through a little bit of a phase of shooting Pentax SLRs. The…
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That time I shot a Noritar 80mm f/2 medium format lens on a Pentax 35mm film camera – By Aivaras
February 25, 2020For a long time, I was looking into 6x6 medium format cameras with a really fast standard focal length lens (around 80mm). Such lenses are rare,…
Lens Adapting, Mods & DIY• Photos & Projects
How I Shot A Micro-Budget Feature Film for less than £4000 with Vintage Lenses and a Sony A7s – By Brenden Singh
February 13, 2020Why make a micro-budget feature film? Well, I had the idea since I was 14 years old. I had a lot of free time at that…
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That time I adapted lenses to (rather than from) a Chaika – by Tobias Eriksson
December 26, 2019The following endeavour was something that I thought had been tried by others, but it turns out that I think it might be something new. I…
Lens Adapting, Mods & DIY
A path from, and back to, a Yashica 40mm f/1.7 lens – by Anders Bjørn Jensen
December 10, 2019I have been an amateur photographer since I was 13 years old (in 1982) when my first camera was a now long-since-bricked Yashica Electro 35 GX.…
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That Time I Shot a Instamatic Lens on a Fuji XE-1 – by Tobias Eriksson
August 5, 2019The Kodak Instamatic 500 might look like a common Instamatic camera. Boxy, thick, pocketable and simple, quickly loaded with a 126-film cassette. But once you take…
Lens Adapting, Mods & DIY• Lenses
Russian Slide Projector lens modification – By Stuart Jenkins
July 10, 2019'Sharp lenses' and 'cheap lenses' is a Venn diagram with a very small intersection. In search of such a short-telephoto lens for equestrian photography, I started…
